Redskins Redesign Plays to Launch Portis

[SmootSmack]

Very nice article. Interesting that it was neither the Washington Post nor the Wash Times that had the story, but instead it was the NY Times

[offiss]

One of Gibbs greatest strengths as a coach his first go round was his ability to spread defenses out and then isolate the running game, I don't believe he will have much of a problem doing it now.

In all honesty even though Gibbs usually had a big back in the past to carry the bulk of the load, my belief was alway's that he may have been better suited with a homerun hitting back like a Portis, reason? Our big backs were so often running through huge holes they didn't have to be break a lot of tackles at the line of scrimmage, but they would be caught from behind were as Portis will take it to the house.

I wasen't the biggest fan of Portis and wasen't high on the trade, and at the time I stated if we are going to bring him in we will have to design a similar blocking scheme for him to be succesful, although I felt the counter trey would be a play that was conducive to his running style, I still believe it is, I just think he was very hindered by our line, Portis can't break arm tackles by D-lineman he just doesn't have the power and so we have to adjust, Portis is a system back, it's encouraging to see Gibbs making that adjustment, now lets hope Gibbs and co. are capable of running a system they are not familar with?

[backrow]

Originally Posted by TAFKAS

Very nice article. Interesting that it was neither the Washington Post nor the Wash Times that had the story, but instead it was the NY Times

Do I hear an echo? It's TAFKAS in my head! You echoed what I was thinking. I also picked up on that J. Campbell at 17th goof!

Bigtime error on the editor's part at a bigtime paper!